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- Dromiceiomimus
- TIME: Late Cretaceous
- LOCALITY: North America (Alberta)
- SIZE: 11 ft 6 in/3.5 m long
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- All ornithomimids had long, slender legs,
- with the shin bone (tibia) about 20 percent
- longer than the thigh bone (femur)--a sure
- sign of a sprinter. Dromiceiomimus had even
- longer shins than average, which indicates
- that it was a very fast runner indeed.The
- size of the brain cavity and eye sockets in
- the skull of Dromiceiomimus shows that it had
- an exceptionally large brain (proportionally
- larger than that of a modern ostrich), and
- huge eyes (proportionally larger than those
- of any modern land animal). So, like modern
- nocturnal or night-hunting creatures,
- Dromiceiomimus most probably hunted after
- dark, chasing small mammals and lizards
- through the gathering gloom of the deciduous
- woods in which it lived.
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- Subject by: Russell Webb
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